19 thoughts on “Wisdom from our adult kids…”

Hi. Thanks for reading and commenting. I hope that you have a good weekend also.
We are expecting nice weather for the weekend. It will be fun to get outside for long periods of time.
Cheers from Portland!

When we were kids, we were told you are a (wo)man of your words. It was the culture of honor.
Our parents told us: forget and forgive. Don’t hold a grudge (ie don’t take it personal).
It was advised to us not to take things for granted, assuming blindly.
And we were reminded that failure is the mother of success. Keep trying your best.

Totally agree!
As an employer of millennials, I frequently find myself wanting – and apprehensive about – to ask if *they* think they’ve done their best. There’s something safe in assuming this younger generation of workers and people tried to get away with doing the minimum. What I’m apprehensive about is finding out they think they did do their best and then having to accept they were ill-equipped to do better because of a failure in the job the generation before them did in preparing them for anything better.
And I think we all know there’s a complicity there. Maybe not with myself or anyone in particular, but in the societal norm of behavior between my parents and theirs.
It’s overwhelming to consider. I don’t look to assign blame, I look to identify the savior of that millennial generation…but fall short.

Integrity. (we need each one to insure this is our lifestyle). Character is more important than all our achievements. It is good if the next generation could only proclaim this more widely. The greatest achievements done by a person without beauty of thought and soul become simply ’empty’ soon forgotten shells.

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